Author: Mark Otto

Big news for both Next.js and Remix

November 2, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Next.js 14 Released — Unveiled at last week’s Next.js Conf, v14 caused a lot of community discussion (not least on Hacker News), largely surrounding Server Actions being declared stable and the ‘backend-meets-frontend’ opportunities this opens up. A new partial prerendering feature is also in preview,…

Ready for Flight: Announcing Finch 1.0 GA!

November 1, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

One year ago AWS announced a brand new open source project, Finch, a command line developer tool for building, running, and publishing Linux containers on macOS. The team and our growing community have been busy this year and we are excited to announce today that…

Next.js 14 and Docusaurus 3.0

November 1, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Next.js 14 Released — Unveiled at last week’s Next.js Conf, Next 14 caused a disproportionate amount of discussion on social media over relatively small changes, mostly surrounding Server Actions being declared stable and the style of development they make possible. The Turbopack bundler is now…

Real Estate App Built in Just 3 Days Using Flatlogic Generator

October 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

We’re excited to show that quality software can be developed quickly! In just 3 days, our team built an example of a Real Estate Application using our AI-based Flatlogic generator! See Demo The application includes essential features for both real estate professionals and consumers, such…

ES module autodetection coming to Node

October 31, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Node v20 Becomes Active LTS Version with v20.9.0 — Codenamed ‘Iron’, v20.9.0 is the first v20 release in its new role as the active LTS release line – a role it will keep till October 2024. Time to start thinking about those Node 18 →…

How to use Amazon CodeWhisperer using Okta as an external IdP

October 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Customers using Amazon CodeWhisperer often want to enable their developers to sign in using existing identity providers (IdP), such as Okta. CodeWhisperer provides support for authentication either through AWS Builder Id or AWS IAM Identity Center. AWS Builder ID is a personal profile for builders.…

Web Components forever?

October 26, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

🗣 Jake’s post fuelled an extensive Hacker News discussion touching on everything from MDX and htmx‘s role, to state management and the ‘shallow’ nature of the Web Components API as-is. Yarn 4.0 Released — Starting life as an npm alternative that resolved several of its…

Server Actions fly the nest

October 25, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

🐦/𝕏 ‘use server’ / Server Actions Now in React Canary — No blog post – just a Twitter/X thread – but the React team has announced Server Actions (and Client Actions) are available in the latest React Canary release. Providing a way to run functions created…

Taking Node to the JVM

October 24, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Yarn 4.0 Released — Yarn began life as an npm alternative that resolved several major pain points with npm at the time, particularly around performance. It remains a popular option and v4 introduces a new ‘hardened mode’ to protect you from certain security issues and…